Karel Teige (1900 -1951) was the major figure of the Czech avant-garde movement Devětsil (named after the plant, Butterbur) in the 1920s, dedicating evidently boundless energy, waking up Prague to modern art…

After welcoming the Soviet army as liberators, Teige was silenced by the Communist government in 1948. In 1951 he died of a heart attack, said to be a result of a ferocious Soviet press campaign against him as a 'Trotskyite degenerate'... His papers were destroyed by the secret police, and his published work was suppressed for decades...

Til now… Here and now… Take pleasure in this masterpiece. There is profuse history and significance behind it.